Pre-Convention

Republicans. California did not need to do it. Mr. Coolidge would have been nominated anyhow. But nevertheless, Califonians chose for Convention delegates a set of Coolidge nien in preference to a delegation for Hiram W. Johnson, native son. The vote was in about a 6-5 proportion. On the same day, Indiana showed its preference for Coolidge over Johnson by a 6-1 ratio. The Republican Utah State Convention gave Coolidge its eleven delegates. Nevada pledged nine delegates. A few more states were yet to be heard from, but as far as the Republicans were concerned, the pre-Convention struggle was surely past with Johnson's debacle in his home state-the state which two years ago he earned by 250,000 votes.

Democrats. It was Wm. GE. McAdoo's week. He captured California against a group who proposed to go to the Democratic Convention uninstructed. He got 40 delegates from Texas. He will probably start at the Convention with 450 or 500 votes, as many as Smith and Underwood combined. Bat the opening of the Democratic Convention will be only the beginning of the struggle,